Thunderstorms return with hail in Alpine area big Bend region
Storms pounded Alpine and Marfa with hail up to tennis ball size and rainfall up to 2.50 inches. Reports noted heavy hail on Jim Walker’s ranch, pasture damage minimal but fruit and gas installations affected. Weather Bureau had warned a wide area from Lub bock to Marfa. later reports showed only light showers on South Plains.
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Avalanche Journal
Alpine
Marfa
Jim Walker
Walker
Range
State Weather Bureau
Lubbock
Alert
Midland
Odessa
Big Spring
Snyder
Lamesa
Pecos
Monahans
Brownfield
Colorado City
Seminole
Fort Stockton
Avalanche-Journal
South Plains
Andrews
Brownsfield
Gail
Borden County
West Texas
Pecos Valley
Permian Basin
Lower
Wink
Lubbock ISD Tackles 1960 61 Budget and Pay Rise Talk
The Lubbock Independent School District board reviewed the 1960 61 budget, Nat Williams presenting a 99 page plan showing estimated decreases in expenditures and receipts. A across the board teacher pay raise was discussed but not included, with a next meeting set for more cost figures. Monterey High School plans were amended, including reduced growth to 2500 students and a two story 45000 square foot building by 1961 to handle peak loads.
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Dorrance Guy
Avalanche-Journal
Rcstees
Lubbock Independent School District
Nat Williams
Iion
Williams
Monterey High School
Ellales School
Pee Renewal Agency
Spanaian
Monterey
Total Bee
Prison: The place where many a man does time behind bars
Editorial note on prison life contrasts confinement with time spent in front of them. It frames imprisonment as a consequence of choices and scrutiny in society.
Seashore Park Plan Backed for Padre Island
UPI reports U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough said Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton advised him there is no objection to passage of legislation this year establishing a National Seashore Park on Padre Island.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
Ralph Yarborough
Interior
Fred Seaton
Padre Island
Russians Almost Ready to Send Man Into Space
The Soviet Embassy circulated an article claiming Russia has all equipment needed to keep a man in space and plans a trial flight with Sputnik IV launched May 15. It details cabin equipment and notes tests before manned orbit, with return procedures.
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United Press International
Washington
Russia
United States
Develoear
Pisto
E. Freen
Corresponding
Sciences
Tax Money Use Denied By Solons
The House Administration Committee ordered a crackdown on congressional expense accounts after reporters accused some members of spending taxpayers funds on night clubbing liquor and vacations. The panel decided to open files on official travel expenses while restricting access to private voucher records.
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United Press Internati
Ashington
House Administration Committee
House
Omar Burleson
Dtex
Chamber
Sam
Oberdorfer
Pincus
Three Die In Gas Explosion In Fargo Building
Three workers died and eight were injured when a welding torch cut into a gas line during conversion work at a vacant storage building in Fargo North Dakota. The dead were Samuel G. Rott of Fargo August Neyssen of Hatton and Robert Lapash of Moorhead. The crew was converting the site for Northern States Power Company. Emergency crews responded with ambulances to remove the victims and rush the injured to hospital.
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Fargo
N.D
Insusie
Samuel G. Rott
August Neyssen
Hatton
N. D
Robert Lapash
Moorhead
Minn
Northern States Power 0
Military Construction Bill Passes Senate for White House
The Senate sent to the White House a 1.185 billion military construction authorization for the coming year. The House had already accepted a compromise version after conferees agreed May 26. The measure makes no appropriations, leaving funds to be decided in separate actions. An air premontion list includes many projects awaiting House action.
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Washington
Senate
White House
House
Broadway Actors Strike Shuts Down The Tenth Man
The Associated Press reports Actors Equity launched a Broadway strike, forcing all 22 Broadway shows plus seven on the road to pause. About 6,000 theatre workers affected as Booth Theater crowd mourns cancellation and ticket holders are told to seek other performances. Curtain times delayed to manage displaced patrons. The walkout follows pension dispute negotiations and marks a rare, unified action after years.
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Associated Press
York
Actors Equity
Booth Theater
W. 45Th St
Arthur Cantor
Johnson wins backing from Scripps-Howard papers
The Associated Press reports Lyndon B. Johnson gains support from Scripps-Howard newspapers for the Democratic presidential nomination. Washington sources say Speaker Sam Rayburn will announce Oscar Chapman as co chair of Johnson’s national committee, with India Edwards, tied to the effort.
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Associated Press
Lyndon B. 5 Johnson
Texas
Scripps-Howard
Washington
House
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Oscar Chapman
Secretary of the Interior
Johnson-for-President
India Edwards
Democratic
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Adlai E
Vanderbilt Girl Sought in Cannes Disappearance Case
Mrs Patricia Murphy Vanderbilt says her 18 year old daughter Nanette Vanderbilt has vanished. She fears elopement with an American sergeant or a ride to Paris with a French actor Laurent Portier claims Nanette left a note saying she would change her passport in Luxembourg and return to Paris. Nanette, an aspiring actress and dancer, was last seen leaving a yacht party and entering a car with a 18 year old named Wiley Lochmeyland. Portier said he had met Nanette in Paris and that she planned to return tonight.
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Cannes
France
UPI
Patricia Murphy Wallace Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr
Nanette
Paris
Wiley Lochmeyland
Vanderbilt
Laurent Portier
Portier
Luxembourg
Eisenhower recalls long crisis over John’s 14 mile hike
President Eisenhower told Boy Scout guests of a 25 year old dispute with Mrs. Eisenhower over whether John should hike alone to a ranch and back. He finally allowed it, learning that giving youth space builds self reliance and that Scouts teach boys to think for themselves.
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United Press International
Ashington
Eisenhower
John
Enoug
Fulbright Skeptical Of Dental
The Associated Press report notes NASA deputy administrator Hugh L. Dryden denying knowledge of U 2 weather planes used for spying. Fulbright questions NASA officials and says it is dangerous to use the space agency as a cover for espionage while Dryden cites 200 plus weather flights since 1956 and emphasizes studies of upper air turbulence and weather data.
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Ashington
Civilian Space Agency
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hugh L. Dryden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
O Dryden
NASA
United Ances
Europe
Turkey
Japan
Space Agency
Chie
Paneer
Dryden
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Fulbright
Apace
Espio
Soviet Union
Agreement Reached In Telegraph Crisis
Negotiators for Western Union and the Commercial Telegraphers Union reached a two year labor contract averting a strike. The deal provides a 10 cent hourly raise and a 5 cent raise on a later schedule. Messengers receive a 5 cent raise on June 1 1961.
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Washington
Western Union
Commercial Telegraphers Union
Poe
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